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Epeus's Engine has a post titled "How Not To Be Viral" which is talking about social applications spread on social networks. The term "viral" is now more like cancer - given application fatique. The post provides an overview of the alternative reproductive strategies to being a virus based on nature metaphors. These might be useful ways to think conceptually about your social fundraising or activism strategy?
- r-Strategy - scatter lots of seeds
- K-Strategy - nurture your young
- Fruiting - delicious with a seed in
- Rhizomatic - grow from the roots up
More commentary in this post - Why Not To Be Viral
If you were to pick a nature metaphor to describe your social network strategy, what would it be?
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